A chara, - May I respectfully ask how your Editorial writer can pen such rubbish on women priests? Has he/she not read the Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father on this very matter? His closing sentence makes the situation abundantly clear:
"Wherefore in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf Luke 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful."
It may be added that this issue has split the Anglican Church causing hundreds of Anglican ministers to come into the Catholic Church. Perhaps in the end, it may be an issue that will help bring the unity we all desire. - Is mise,
Fr Tom Ingoldsby,
SDB,
Salesian House,
Ballinakill,
Portlaoise.